Shaari Mohamed Noor, chairman of the Film Censorship Board under the ministry, warned that those convicted of possessing, selling or distributing the banned material face a fine between 5,000 ringgit ($1,316) and 30,000 ringgit or a jail term not exceeding three years.

Lewis, a professor of English at Oregon State University who also has taught film and cultural studies, provides us with a film censorship timeline that dates back to the early days of the twentieth century.

With the imminent arrival of Bride of Chucky (the latest addition to the Child's Play series, erroneously blamed for the Jamie Bulger tragedy) likely to revive tabloid hysteria about film censorship, The Last Days Of The Board (Channel 4) offered a fascinating behind the scenes look at the British Board of Film Certification.

Frank Walsh, professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, spent seven years nd traveled to 21 cities in search of the mass of details fleshing out this history of the relationship between Hollywood and the hierarchy that brings into sharp focus the chimera of film censorship.

Other examples of tribunals found in all of the provinces and territories are workers' compensation and employment standards boards, human rights commissions, labour boards, various marketing boards, liquor licensing agencies, film censorship boards, social welfare review boards, and so on.

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